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1
What is literal comprehension?
The understanding of what is explicitly stated in a text
The lack of understanding of what is stated in a text
The understanding of what is implicitly stated in a text
The complete understanding of a text
2
What is a prefix?
A syllable added to the end of a word to change meaning
A syllable that stands alone
A syllable added to the beginning and end of a word
A syllable added to the start of a word to change meaning
3
What are minimal pairs?
A pair of words that vary wildly.
A pair of words that are synonyms.
A pair of words that vary by only one phoneme
A pair of words that vary by more than one phoneme.
4
Expository text is considered ......
Fiction-like
Nonfiction
Fiction
None of the above
5
What are the 3 of the six categories of cognitive objections organized by complexity?
Knowledge, Compression, Application.
Knowledge, Comprehension, Attitude
Knowledge, Comprehension, Application.
Kinship, Comprehension, Application.
6
A student struggles to explain what they read. What strategy could you use?
Redoing - after a child reads a story they read it again
Retelling -after a child reads a story they retell the story
Repeating -after a child reads a story the teacher repeats
Rereading -after a child reads a story someone else reads it
7
What are the 5 steps of the writing process in order.
Prewriting, revising, drafting, publishing, and editing.
Prewriting, drafting, publishing, revising and editing.
Prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
Writing, drafting, editing, revising and publishing.
8
Which of the following are stop consonant sounds?
b, c, d, g, j, k, p, qu, t
a, e, i, o, u
f, l, m, n, r, s, v, z
y
9
A small-group or whole-class discussion about literature is called what?
A grand conversation
A Grand Canyon
A grand ole time
A grand communication
10
Predicting, monitoring, visualizing, and summarizing are all types of what?
reading
teaching
mathematics
strategies
11
What is a readability formula?
A method of estimating the reading level of a student
A method of estimating the writing level of a student
A method of estimating the difficulty of teaching a lesson
A method of estimating the difficulty level of a text
12
A student reads at a very slow rate but with strong comprehension. What strategy could be used?
reading alone in the corner with no support
choral reading in a small group until student matches pace
reading in front of the whole class
reading at home with his parents.
13
What three strategies can you use to teach phenomic awareness to a lower grade student?
Sound disisolation, sound desegmentation, talking
Sound isolation, sound identity, sound segmentation
sound deletion, sound segmentation
Sound repeating, sound loudness, sound methods
14
What strategy can you use to help a struggling reader with a learning disability in 6th grade?
Focus on blending and segmenting, reteach lacking skills
Decrease the focus on reading and do more math
Phenomic awareness practice
Cross circular studies
15
What is the Goldilocks principle in reading?
A strategy to find a big that is too big
A strategy to find a big that is too small
A strategy to find a big that is just right
Reading Goldilocks over and over.
16
A student struggles with content-specific vocabulary. What could the teacher do for support?
Skip the unit for the entire class.
Send the student home with a packet of homework.
Use sheltered instruction to pre-teach vocabulary words
Have the student work on the unit with no struggles
17
What are synonyms?
Words that mean nearly the same thing
Two words with nothing in common
Words that mean nearly the opposite
Two words that sound alike
18
A stage of reading where readers reread the text and then learn strategies and skills
Exponential
Excused
Expository
Exploring
19
Reading a writing to identify and correct spelling and other mechanical errors
proofreading
pre-reading
post-reading
reading
20
Phonics is
a method of teaching writing
a method of teaching spelling
an outdated form of teaching reading
the predictable relationships between phonemes and graphemes
21
What is a word wall?
An alphabetized chart listing words students will not learn
An alphabetized chart listing words students are learning
A wall made out of words
A teaching method using bricks to teach reading
22
When the teacher reads a sentence and a group of students reread what was read, this is called
re-reading
echolocation
bad reading
echo reading
23
Orthography is what system?
Spelling
Reading
Writing
Math
24
A writing workshop is which of the following?
An approach where teachers use the writing process to teach
An approach where students teach other students to write.
An approach where students use writing process to write
An approach where students use writing process to read
25
The ability to apply knowledge of letter-sounds to correctly pronounce written words is....
Coding
Decomposition
Decoding
Recoding
26
A narrative is a.....
Poem
Story
Song
Book
27
The second stage of the writing process is
drafting
pre-writing
finished writing
editing
28
How do you teach phonological awareness to a lower grade student?
Word blending and syllable blending only
Word awareness only
There is no way to teach phonological awareness
Word and syllable awareness,word blending,syllable blending
29
The 4th stage of the writing process involves correcting spelling and grammatical errors.
Editing
Drafting
Post writing
Outlining
30
Literal, inferential and evaluative are three levels of....
Clusters
Compound
Comprehension
Conductivity
31
A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed is called what?
A vowel
A hard sound
A consonant
A syllable
32
What is a student's background knowledge?
A student's knowledge about the future
A student's knowledge about the past
A student's knowledge overall
A student's knowledge about the present
33
What are leveling books?
A method of reading books aloud
A method of estimating the difficulty level of a text
Books that level furniture
A method of reading books with help
34
What is the definition of a consonant diagraph?
Two letters that are not used together to make a sound
Two vowels that come together to make one sound
Two letters that come together to make one sound.
Two consonants that come together to make one sound
35
What is a comparison expressed using like or as?
comparison
metaphor
onomatopoeia
simile
36
The ability to manipulate the sounds in words orally is....
poetry
phoneme
phonemic awareness
personification
37
A writing activity in which students and the teacher write a text together is called what?
Dependent writing
Independent writing
Active writing
Interactive writing
38
A dipthong is a sound....
produced when the tongue glides from one sound to another
produced once in a while accidentally
never produced
produced when the tongue does not move
39
Each of two or more words having the same spelling but different meanings and origins is what?
antonym
homonym
heteronym
synonym
40
A monitoring assessment that can be used to assess progress in reading comprehension is:
a list of vocabulary words learned so far
a completed learning log
a parent teacher conference
an interest inventory
41
Incorporating writing skills into every subject matter is an example of what?
Cross-circular
Cross cut
Circular
Cross stitch
42
What is the phonological and pragmatic information that students rely on as they read.
Reading systems
Cueing systems
Cue balls
Teaching systems
43
Name 3 independent reading strategies assessments to use with struggling 3rd grade students.
interest inventory, reading minutes, observation
interest ignorance, reading logs, observation
interest inventory, reading logs, observation
There are no strategies to use with a 3rd grade student
44
Define high frequency words
A common word usually a word among the 100 most common words
A word that is frequently pronounced wrong
A word that teachers use on tests often
A word that is not common
45
What is a reading workshop?
An approach in which the teacher reads texts to the students
An approach in which students write texts for others to read
An approach in which students read in groups quietly
An approach in which students read texts independently
46
What is the pre-communicative phase?
Using letters from alphabet but no knowledge of letter-sound
Communicating with grunts and groans.
Making sounds by looking at words
Using letters from alphabet with full understanding
47
What is instructional reading level?
The level of reading material that cannot be read
The level of reading material that can be read with support.
The level of reading material that can be read independently
The level of reading material used in social science
48
Two or more adjacent vowels in a syllable that represent a single sound is called?
A vowel
A consonant digraph
A repeating digraph
A vowel digraph
49
Context clues are what?
Something you learn from playing Clue
A hint that the police use to solve a crime
A hint that an author doesn't give you
A hint that an author gives to help define a difficult word
50
Fluency is defined as....
reading for speed
A method of testing reading
reading with help
reading smoothly, quickly and with expression
51
The words fan, am, and left all have closed syllables. What is a closed syllable?
A syllable that ends with a vowel
A syllable that starts with a consonant
Any syllable
A syllable that ends with a consonant
52
What does affix mean?
A word all by itself
A syllable added to the end or beginning of a word
A syllable added to the beginning of a word only
A syllable added to the end of a word only
53
What is syllabication?
Syllabication is not a word
Using the word syllabus repeatedly while teaching
Forming or dividing words into syllables
Clapping while speaking to determine syllables
54
A voiced speech sound made without friction or stoppage of the airflow is called?
A vowel
A consonant
A word
Writing
55
There is a student with an IEP in a 2nd grade class. How should a teacher do entry-level plans
Refer to the IEP and then ignore it.
Plan as if the student does not have an IEP
Plan as if every student on an IEP has the same requirements
Refer to the IEP to determine any specific accomodations
56
How do you help a student who has difficulty with d and b?
Have student write d and b 100 times each
Send student to the learning center for help
Give student work that does not involve d and b
Help student on directionality of each letter with tracing
57
How can you teach letter recognition to a kindergarten student who has no preschool background?
have them stare at the alphabet on the board
Recommend IEP for a student who does not understand letters
singing the alphabet, ABC books, practice writing letters
Sing songs and play with puppets
58
What is a child's word bank?
A personal collection of words he knows in isolation.
A personal collection of words he knows in group settings.
A personal collection of words he knows when asked.
A personal collection of words he is learning in isolation.
59
What is a suffix?
A syllable added to the end of a word to change meaning
A syllable added to the start of a word to change meaning
A word
A syllable added to the start or end of a word
60
Why is structural analysis used?
It is used for reading all words in all grades.
It is used for reading complex words in upper grades.
It is used for reading simple words in lower grades.
It is used for writing
61
A student struggles to answer inferential questions. What strategies would support this student
Ignore the struggles
Collect evidence of students progress quarterly
Explicitly teach comprehension strategies
Conference with the student on a yearly basis
62
When you read a textbook leveled according to grade, it is called?
Basal reading
Reading
Basic reading
Beginning reading
63
A reading process in which readers activate background knowledge and make plans for reading
proof reading
reading
pre-writing
pre-reading
64
What is reading that a student needs to complete and understand in a particular subject area?
Reading is fundamental
Reading in general
Content area reading
Complex reading
65
A level of reading material that is too difficult for a student to read successfully.
Freedom level
Frustration level
Fluency level
Success level
66
What is the structural system of language or grammar?
syntax
system
speech
disorder
67
What is a literature circle?
An approach in which students write a story in a group
An approach in which students meet in groups to read a book
An approach in which students meet in groups to read a book
An approach where students sit in circles in class
68
What is hyperbole?
A reading style
A stylistic device involving obvious exaggerations
A fast moving bowl
A stylistic device involving rhymes
69
The first stage of the writing process, in which writers gather and organize ideas for writing
pre-reading
writing
pre-writing
proof reading
70
The tone of a story or poem is called what?
Moody
Allusion
A short story
Mood
71
What term describes enlarged versions of picture books used in primary grades?
Picture books
Big books
Small books
Books
72
Students working in small groups to read a text selected and introduced by the teacher is what?
Math
A guided reading
A reading
An independent reading
73
What alternative assessments can be used in an IEP?
More time,bigger units,practice assessment,harder version
More time,smaller units,practice assessment,simpler version
Less time,smaller units,less practice,simpler version
More time,smaller units,less practice, harder version
74
What is an antonym?
A word with the opposite meaning
The same word twice
A word with the same meaning
A word that has no meaning
75
Which of the following are continuous consonant sounds?
b, c, d, g, j, k, p, qu, t
y
a, e, i, o, u
f, l, m, n, r, s, v, z
76
The the ability to read and write is called....
literacy
teaching
education
reading
77
What is the term for reading for information?
Effervescent reading
Efferent reading
Homework
Fun
78
To pronounce a word slowly, saying each sound distinctly is called what?
Segment
Sectional
Segmental
Section
79
Long vowels are what type of vowels?
The vowel sounds that are also consonants
The vowel sounds that are also names of the alphabet letters
The opposite of consonants.
None of the above
80
How do you pronounce dipthong?
dipˌTHäNG
dipthong
d THäNG
dipˌthank
81
The purpose of an entry-level assessment is to determine:
ignoring the CA state standards
determine the selection of appropriate instructional tools
short term planning for cross-circular instruction
giving grades to students
82
What are the three key indicators of fluency that should be seen in 2nd grade students?
Accuracy, readability, prosody
Availability, rate, prosody
Accuracy, rate, prosody
Accuracy, rate, parody
83
What does the Lexile scale measure?
It measures a text's skill level in being written
It measures a readers speed
It measures the skill of a teacher
It measures a text's complexity and a reader's skill level
84
A spiderlike diagram, called a map or web, used to collect and organize ideas after reading is
Not used in teaching
A cloud
A cluster
A spider
85
In teaching reading, what is scaffolding?
The support a teacher provides to students as they read
The support students provide to a teacher during reading
The support a teacher provides to students as they play
The support students provide to each other during reading
86
What are the four stages of spelling?
teaching, phonetic, transitional and conventional
pre-phonetic, onomatopoeia, transitional and conventional
pre-phonetic, phonetic, transitional and conventional
pre-phonetic, phonetic, transitional and unconventional
87
What is independent reading level?
The level of reading material that is skipped
The level of reading material that can be read with help
The level of reading material that can be read independently
The level of reading material taught to a student
88
What is listening capacity level?
A passage that can not be comprehended at all
A capacity used to test one's hearing level
Highest level of a passage that is comprehended when read
Lowest level of a passage that is comprehended when read
89
What are some strategies the teacher can use to support a student's challenge with CVC words?
Stop testing the CVC words with this student.
Keep using the same methods that have been used so far
Use letter tiles to relearn the alphabet
Use letter tiles & blend the word by pointing to each letter
90
What is shared reading?
The teacher reads a book alone
Students read a book to other students
The teacher reads a book with a group of children who follow
Students read a book to the teacher
91
What is the term used for reading for pleasure?
Homework
Aesthetic reading
Reading for school
Fun
92
What is a word family?
A group of words that have nothing in common
A group of words that are synonyms
A group of words that start with the same letter
A group of words that rhyme
93
What are two standard assessment auality indicators?
Unreliability, validity
Unreliability, invalidity
Reliability, validity
Reliability, invalidity
94
What does the Yopp-Singer test determine?
A reader's ability to write.
A reader's ability to read
A reader's ability to break a word apart into letters
A reader's ability to break a word apart into sounds
95
A comparison expressed directly, without using like or as, is what?
A metaphor
A simile
onomatopoeia
A vowel
96
A strategy in which students predict what will happen in a story and read to verify is called?
Phonics
Phonology
Predilection
Prediction
97
What is imagery?
The use of figurative language to create a false story
The use of figurative language when completing word problems
The use of figurative language in teaching
The use of figurative language to create an impression
98
What is structural analysis?
A word is divided into syllables
You analyze the structure of a composition
A word is divided into letter parts
A word is divided into multi-letter parts
99
What are three ways you can teach concepts about print to a 1st grade student?
Reading aloud,shared book experience, print rich environment
Reading quietly, ignoring print, speaking a lot
Reading aloud, shared book experience
Reading aloud only
100
What are three comprehension skills?
literal, inferential, and teaching
literal, bilateral, and evaluative
literal, inferential, and evaluative
phonetic, inferential, and evaluative
101
A fourth grade teacher has struggling readers. To develop their comprehension, she should:
ignore those readers and work with the higher readers
assign extra homework for these students
provide visual explanations of the comprehension strategies
provide independent reading time to these students
